The thread/section overview looks like it’s designed for 80+ olds. It’s all so big, especially the fonts and the spaces.
You have to scroll so much and easily lose the oversight.
Within a thread I constantly get confused, because the avatar, name and date interrupts my reading flow a lot. Those things are better off in a right column, just like in most decent forums (and even the BL forum did that right). On top of that, a quote has the same color as this “poster info bar”, so I mix that things up and end up reading the posters name instead of a quote.
I don’t get the issue. It’s a forum. The most important part is the context (text). You never see anyone whining that facebook is too plain. The mobile version of this place looks just as I want too.